Decoy



(No Model.)

W. KUNSELMAN' DEOOY.

No.554,3 68. Patented Feb. 11, 1896.

UNITED STATES VILLIAM KUNSELMAN, OF

PIERRE, sourn DAKOTA.

DEOOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,368, dated February 1 1, 1896. Application filed July 6,1895. Serial No. 555,173. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM KUNSELMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pierre, in the county of Hughes and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Goose-Decoys, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact descrip* tion, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the back and sides of the decoy-goose are formed. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the blank bent into shape to form the back and sides of the decoy. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same. Fig. i is an elevation of a strengthening-plate provided with lugs c c c for connecting it with the arched back of the decoy. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the plates for attaching the legs of the decoy to the body of the same. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the head and neck of the decoy detached from the body portion. Fig. 8 is aside view of the lower neck portion detached from the head portion. Fig. 9 is an edge view of the head and neck portion, the lower neck portion diverging and having inwardly-projecting tongues upon the lower ends of the arms of the diverging portions. Fig. 10 is a detached View of the legs of the decoy, showing the twists or loops near their upper ends. Fig. 11 is a side elevation of the decoy, the several parts being connected in place. Fig. 12 is an end view of the same.

The invention relates to goose-decoys; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The object of the invention is not only to produce a decoy-goose that maybe stationed in the feeding-grounds or secured by means of its legs to a proper or convenient float or log, but to so construct the decoy that its parts may be quickly and readily separated and packed for shipment in suitable quantities, or which after it has been used for any desired time may have the parts composing it separated for shipping or for storing, as may be desirable or necessary.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a a designate the blank of sheet metal from which the back and sides of the body of the decoy are formed. A strengthening-plate provided with lips c c c is secured to the sheet-metal back after it has been bent into'shape to strengthen it and is made removable from said back to aid in storing or packing of the parts of the decoy. Upon the top of the back of the decoy-body at its front end is a flanged seat 6 for receiving the inwardly-projecting flanges f at the lower end of the neck portion of the decoy. The head portion andupper neck portionclare riveted to the upper end of the diverging lower neck portion'of the decoy. Two flanged pieces of metal, having each a U-shaped bend along their middle lines, are riveted to the lower edges of the body at a a to receive the upper ends of the rods provided with bends e 6 near their upper ends. These rods form the legs of the decoy, which may be inserted into the ground when covered with shallow water, so as to properly display the body of the decoy, or they may be passed down through holes made in a log or other float where the water is too deep to display the decoy when secured to the bed of the body of water. The loops 6 e prevent the legs from passing entirely through the holes, so as to become lost, but permit the lower ends of the legs to project far enough to form a suitable drag for the decoy.

The entire decoy is painted to represent a goose or duck.

Where for ducks, the decoy is only made smaller, it being the same in all other particulars.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a goose-decoy, of the body portion bent to shape and provided with a seat for the head and neck section, and seats for the upper ends of the legs, of the head and neck portion, the latter provided with in wardly-projecting flanges on its lower portion for engaging a seat in the back of the body portion of the goose-decoy, as set forth.

2. The combination with the arched body portion having the transverse strengtheningplate removably secured therein, the neckseat and the leg-seats secured thereto, of the removable neck and head portion and the removable legs having twists near their upper ends, as and for the purposes set forth.

VILLIAM KUNSELMAN.

Witnesses:

H. H. FREEMAN, B. J. BINFORD. 

